New York: Lancer Books, 1961. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback.
First edition. Spine faintly creased, edge wear.
222 pp. The life and death of Nobel laureate and 20th-century literary titan Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. Debunks many of the myths created by EH's widow Mary, particularly the manner and circumstances of the.....
Stuttgart / Bonn / Berlin / Gotha. / Hamburg: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hauses. 1861. Half-Leather.
Former library copy (College of St. Scholastica), and likely bound together by them, with just a few marks on new end.....
Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. Trade Paperback.
Sticker ghost on rear cover.
xiii, 202 pp. Depicted in popular films, television series, novels, poems, and countless media reports, Sylvia Plath's women readers have become nearly as legendary as Plath herself, in large part because the depictions are seldom.....
London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Soft Cover.
Spine creased, light general wear to covers, highlighting.
xii, 452 pp. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that have shaped the field. Topics include: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality.....
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1890. Hard Cover.
Board corners bumped, edge of front free endpaper torn.
302 pp. CONTENTS: From the Conquest to Chaucer, 1066-1400; From Chaucer to Spenser, 1400-1599; The Age of Shakespeare, 1564-1616; The Age of Milton, 1608-1674; From the Restoration to the Death of Pope, 1660-1744; From.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Rear jacket panel soiled, very minor tears to jacket edges.
vi, 326 pp. CONTENTS: I. Chaucer and His Age; II. Religion; III. Chaucer; IV. The Fifteenth Century; V. The Author and His Public; VI. Fifteenth-Century Verse; VII. Fifteenth-Century Prose; Chronological.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned.
xv, 223 pp. "Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep, The Year of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket. Top corners of boards bumped.
xiii, 464 pp. Includes black-and-white plates. A biography of Emily Dickinson with a collection of her letters and poetry.
Berkeley / Los Angeles / London: University of California, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front hinge just starting, jacket in near fine condition.
xiv, 324 pp. A scholarly examination of Biblical imagery in the poetry of George Herbert, who was a poet, orator, and priest of the Church.....
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1951. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1950-52 printings. All volumes lack jacket. Pages toned, minor ink underlining in preface of first volume; binding of fourth volume repaired.
Complete in four volumes. xviii, 422; iv, 382; xv, 443; xli, 396 pp. Fold-out timeline of English and Japanese literature following.....
Monaco: The Lyrebird Press, 1947. First Edition. Stapled Binding.
First edition. Edge wear, wrappers lightly toned.
41 pp. An excellent and enlightening essay on Sitwell's poetry, the poets who influenced her, and how she made her own unique contribution to modern poetry.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minimal wear to jacket corners.
xii, 540 pp. A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related.....
US: Russell & Russell, 1957. Hard Cover.
Small chips and tears to jacket edges.
366 pp. Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. Hard Cover.
Smoke odor, otherwise a very good copy in a very good jacket.
185 pp. "Analyzes Austen's novels in terms of their structure, ironic comedy, satiric realism, and their perception of the cultural significance of marriage."
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1969. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper.
146 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Random House, 1978. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. One inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
xv, 168 pp. ...gives the richest account to date of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway relationship. Not only does it set the dates, but it also provides psychological profiles of two of.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1970. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
276 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1927. Small Hard Cover.
Pages toned, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper verso.
324 pp. A dictionary released as an advertising premium by Buster Brown Shoe Company. Abbott's Selected Webster Dictionary of the English Language: Modernized, Self-pronouncing, and with Illustrations for.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Rear joint has been repaired.
247 pp. CONTENTS: Emerson; Walt Whitman; A Study of Romeo; Michael Angelo's Sonnets; The Fourth Canto of the Inferno; Robert Browning; Robert Louis Stevenson.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover.
Seventh edition. Front joint starting, loss to spine head, board corners rubbed.
191 pp. Khaki boards with red and gilt titles and decor, decorative floral endpapers. George Eliot (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England—died December 22, 1880, London).....
Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
viii, 326 pp. The concept of the generation in today's German culture and literature, and its role in German identity. In the debates since 1945 on German history and culture, the concept of generations has.....
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
4th printing. An exceptional copy.
168 pp. “Michael Collier’s book is refreshing in its refusal to push for one particular aesthetic. He regards his own preference for realism over abstraction as more a matter of temperament than of considered.....
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New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
237 pp. A look at Bertolt Brecht's time spent in Europe and America after fleeing Nazi Germany.
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Article adhered to paste-down endpapers, ink name on front endpaper, pencil underlining.
xvi, 238 pp. This book is primarily concerned with Henry David Thoreau's relation to nature and is further concerned with his relationship to history, to man.
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Price on front cover redacted.
307 pp. Authors include Francois Mauriac; E.M. Forster; Joyce Cary; Dorothy Parker; James Thurber; Thornton Wilder; William Faulkner; Georges Simenon; Frank O'Connor; Robert Penn Warren; Alberto Moravia; Nelson Algren; Angus Wilson; William Styron;.....